That statement unfortunately extends to the game’s story. There’s very little in the Diablo 4 campaign that will surprise you so far as that goes. You’ve been down this road before regardless of whether you’ve played a Diablo game or not. Pick a class, complete main quests (and the occasional side quest), and level up along the way. Structurally, there’s not much to the Diablo 4 campaign you won’t find in other games. It’s an odd dynamic that often left me wondering how responsible it is to praise a live service game for executing the concept so well at a time when live service games are often responsible for some of the worst aspects of modern gaming. So after finally getting to play the (mostly) full version of Diablo 4, it’s my strange duty to report that Diablo 4’s best qualities often work because of the game’s live service nature rather than in spite of them. Just look at what happened to Diablo Immortal. Microtransactions, content gating, the exhaustion of keeping up with a game that never ends…you don’t have to dive too deep into hypotheticals to see how it could all go wrong. What worried me most about Diablo 4 was the game’s live-service structure and all of the things that typically go along with that business model. Through ups and downs, the Diablo games have long been fundamentally enjoyable to play. It was easy to lose hours (even days) to Diablo 4’s betas.

I never really had any doubt that Diablo 4 would be a fun game.

Diablo 4 actual gameplay